Jamaica - Diarrhea treatment

Diarrhea treatment (% of children under 5 receiving oral rehydration and continued feeding)

Definition: Children with diarrhea who received oral rehydration and continued feeding refer to the percentage of children under age five with diarrhea in the two weeks prior to the survey who received either oral rehydration therapy or increased fluids, with continued feeding.

Source: UNICEF, State of the World's Children, Childinfo, and Demographic and Health Surveys.

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Year Value
2000 21.00
2005 39.00
2011 43.30

Diarrhea treatment (% of children under 5 who received ORS packet)

The value for Diarrhea treatment (% of children under 5 who received ORS packet) in Jamaica was 64.10 as of 2011. As the graph below shows, over the past 25 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 64.10 in 2011 and a minimum value of 6.00 in 1986.

Definition: Percentage of children under age 5 with diarrhea in the two weeks preceding the survey who received oral rehydration salts (ORS packets or pre-packaged ORS fluids).

Source: UNICEF, State of the World's Children, Childinfo, and Demographic and Health Surveys.

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Year Value
1986 6.00
1987 6.00
1989 15.00
2000 24.40
2005 40.30
2011 64.10

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Disease prevention